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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Altibase

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1999

2015

2014

2018

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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